- How automatically make mapped network drives come online after log
- Posted by Who am I on February 1st, 2006
I have a synchronisation software that mirrors given folders from one PC to
another through mapped drives that are reconnected when logged on. These
network drives however stay offline until I manually open them. At that
moment they are really reconnected and things start to roll. Is there a way
that these drives, with Windows XP completely and constantly upgraded, really
are connected and online at logon?
- Posted by Ian on February 1st, 2006
I would suggest removing the persisitent mappings, and using a logon-script
to establish the drives. An example might be
logon.bat:
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net use /persisitent:no
net use h: \\server\share1 /user:johndoe
net use k: \\server\srare2
The script can be launched from the startup folder if you don't havev a
'real' server.
Only downwside of this approach is that the 'server' machine must already be
running when the client machine starts. If that's a problem you can always
manually launch the script from a desktop-shortcut, or use a scheduler-task
to launch it.
- Posted by Who am I on February 3rd, 2006
OK, it works for one of my machines which is a permanent on server but isn't
there a more efficient way by mapping a drive a that Windows automatically
activates a network drive as soon as the machine hosting the path is
available?
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